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Exploring the Cohesion of Classroom Community from the Perspectives of Social Presence and Social Capital by Ding-Chau Wang; Yu-Lin Jeng; Chih-Ming Chiang; Yong-Ming Huang is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

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Classroom community in higher education benefits students' learning because it can soothe students' anxiety about isolation. However, only a small number of studies investigated the key factors behind the cohesion of a classroom community. It is a vital issue because previous studies have pointed out that cohesion is crucial for the survival of a community. Against this background, this study developed a research model that incorporates social presence and social capital, so as to identify the decisive factors behind the cohesion of a classroom community. Our research findings demonstrated that social presence plays a pivotal role in affecting the cohesion of a classroom community. The former not only directly influenced the latter, but also affected it indirectly via structural and relational social capital. This result implies that increasing the interaction among community members (e.g. engaging them in discussion rather than allowing them to ignore read messages) is the first priority if we are going to alleviate students' anxiety about isolation with classroom community. As students' interaction increases, their social ties and mutual trust will become stronger, and their cohe

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Author

Ding-Chau Wang; Yu-Lin Jeng; Chih-Ming Chiang; Yong-Ming Huang

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences